We are looking appoint several Appointment Setters/Telesales professionals. The successful candidates will be based in a new Contact Centre, working closely with the wider Employer Solutions and regional apprenticeship delivery teams to maximise new business opportunities.

Key to this role is to carry out telesales through outbound calls from an existing database of employer records to establish training needs and secure appointments for field based partnerships team, focused mainly on apprenticeship levy employers and businesses.

The post holders will be targeted and KPI's and will be expected to meet and exceed these targets as set out by the contact centre manager

Essential skills and experience required;

* Experience of working within a busy contact centre and have a proven track record in delivery of targets and KPI's * Experience of achieving targets in a sales environment * Sales and promotion experience of managing campaigns across a variety of platforms * Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal and presentation, negotiation and selling skills * Self-motivated with a pro-active 'can-do' attitude * Confident and enthusiastic * Influence, persuade and motivate others * The following experience is preferred:

* Experience of working within the work based learning and Further Education sectors